I'm Guest Designer at CAS Watercolour Card Challenge

I am excited to be joining the Talented Designers over at

CAS Watercolour Blog as their Guest Designer for November.

Thank You Bonnie & Loll for the Honour.

As it is so close to Christmas this is just perfect timing

to add to your CAS Christmas Stash by joining in the current 

You can find the Details Here

I created my framed background using
Distress/Distress Oxide Inks in
Seedless Preserves/Peacock Feathers & Broken China.
I then cut them from MFT Stitched Die
and popped for dimension.
My Merry Die is from Memory Box.
Christmas Sentiment is Hero Arts
To finish I added a few punched silver stars
and tiny sequins in pink and silver.

Don't forget to pop over and see what
 The Talented Design Team have created.
You have until the 24th of this month to play.
Hope you get time to join us.
I love looking at the variety of colours and styles created
for this special time of the year.
Will I see yours there?

Thanks so much for dropping in.

It's a 'Crackle-ing' Hello

Hello Crafty Ones.

Can you believe it's November! Christmas is just down the road

but I'm not going to show you a Christmas card. Phew! she says.

Instead I want to show you a cas card I made
for the latest challenge over at the
 Mix It Up Challenge Blog for this month's

Anything Goes Challenge with the 

Optional Twist of 'Stenciling'

I just love stencils as there are so many ways to use them
with our craft products. For this one I used
ARTplorations Retro Circles
on watercolour paper pasting it with
DecoArt White Crackle Paste.
Doesn't it look 'awesome'

Once dry I sprinkled Brusho's in Lemon/Turquoise & Sea Green.
This was cut with a stitched die and
mounted onto green card base.
My sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping - A Big Hello
inked with TH Oxide Peacock Feathers cut
from a MFT stitched die.
Finished with scattered pearls.
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Now pop over to Our Blog

 to see what the rest of the Team
have made for your inspiration.
I'm sure you will want to join us this month so...
See you there!
Thanks for dropping in

I Think You're....

It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and our

Judge Judy is Hosting!

Look at WHAT SHE FOUND!

Now how much fun can you have with this!
I certainly did with my background.
I think I have used just about everything imaginable here
to try and replicate what's above.
Lots of Brusho's shimmer a bit of stenciling
credit card swiping -  which made my craft room
very messy but I loved it.
I decided to add lots of sentiments
from MFT Simply Fab Sayings
a swirly thingy to highlight the so
and the fabulous is  CUTplorations Fabulous Word Die.
Matted that with purple paper onto black card stock.

Pop over to Our Blog
to see more fabulously colourful creations
by our October Guest Karola
and the Team and come join us this week.
Hope to see you there.

It's my 'Favourite Flower'

Hello Crafty Ones

It's my turn to HOST this fortnight's challenge over at

Cardz 4 Galz and I have chosen

'Your Favourite Flower & Why'

Now those that know me will know what it is before

I've even added my photo.

Off course it is a 'Thistle' and being a Scot

I just love them. 

I have several 'thistle' stamps and was going to use one of them

but after looking through one of my die drawers I saw 

this British Thistle Die I had forgotten about.

Once more my Brusho's came out.

I used Purple/Sea Green & Leaf Green

but only the greens on the background.

My thistle was cut out after I had spritzed

the 3 brusho colours, carefully picking

out the best spot colour wise.

The background was cut with a stitched die

after I added some inked stamping from Kaisercraft

a few splatters from Tim Holtz and a cut out frame.

Added some WOS to the thistle a purple bow

 and a few butterflies above.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations Bloom Happy.

That's it for me today.

Love to see what your favourite flower is

AND why! so pop over and see

the Team's favourites and come join us.

It's Snowing...somewhere

No Crafty Ones - it isn't snowing real snow where I live

but it is on my card for the latest challenge over at

The Mod Squad and what a timely one for me.

 Check out the Details Here

I was working on another card (which you will see at a later date0

when I had a leftover piece of water colour card stock. I had some

Blue Brusho's and White Pearl Acrylic Paint on my craft mat

so not to waste it I just smooched it and thought 

it would come in handy especially as 

Christmas is just down the road.

Little did I know I would snap it up quickly to make my card above.

As it was only a small piece I cut out 

part of my birch tree die to adhere to the front. 

I recently purchased some Delta Fantasy Snow

from Happy Little Stampers. It takes ages to dry

but has little balls of snow with bits of shimmer

and looks so realistic. I added it to the bottom

on the trees and even my wee bird which is from

a very old Gina K stamp set called Snow One Like You.

I cut him out separately as he was attached to a bird cage.

He has a tiny bit of Nuvo shimmer.

My sentiment is from STAMPlorations Celebrate the Season

inked with Memento Summer Sky.

(wish I had inked it further up)

Finished with some glitter stars.

I found a few other Challenge Sites I though 

I would drop my card over to.

They are - The Merry Christmas Challenge

It's Anything Goes + Christmas

and The Water Cooler Challenges

for  Charlotte's All About Christmas

Thanks so much for dropping in today.

Love reading your comments.

Till next time - Cherrio from

Your Smile.......

Don't we all love it when a card comes together nicely!

This card did just that and it is for the

over at Addicted to Stamps & More

I think the sentiment I chose from

STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2

makes for a perfect Pick Me Up.

Moving away from my addiction to Brusho's

I got our my other addiction - 

Tim's Oxide Inks and don't we all love them.

For my background I chose 

Peacock Feathers/Picked Raspberry 

and Fossilized Amber

blending separately and drying

each colour as I go.

The hardest part was finding some DP

to match one of the colours which I eventually did

and cut my panel from Tim's Mixed Media.

Adding my butterfly from

CUTplorations Flutter Zen 2 Layering Die

 and a gem to the centre.

My sentiment was cut from a Spellbinders circle die

inking the edge and popped to finish.

Be sure to pop over and see what the other

Designers created and come join us.

Hope to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in today.

'Love' Always

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls and hosting is Vicki

choosing these colours

They 'scream' Halloween to me but I chose a different path
as I am not a Halloween sort of person.

I think this flower from SU Bloom with Hope

makes for a lovely card. I remembered I had some

Twinkling H2 O's in my stash so I decided to

heat emboss the flower and go from there.

I fussy cut that out and then went on to 

create the background.

This was achieved using SU Timeless Textures

with TH Black Soot & Mowed Lawn.

The green leaves are from Marianne Designs

and a MS punch.

I finished my flower with some Diamond Dust

in the centre.

and cut my sentiment from STAMPlorations Pocket Blooms

with a MFT Stitched die.

Pop over to Our Blog to see what our

October Guest Karola

and the Team created using these fabulous colours.

You are never disappointed!

Hope to see you there. 

Thanks for dropping by

A Stenciling I Did Go

I have had the stenciling on this card done for days now

and has just been sitting on my bench

 so today I thought I had better finish it off 

and add it to the CAS Mix Up October Challenge

which is to use more than one stencil on your cas card.

I used stamping, Distress inks, stenciling and

 water colour splotching with Brusho's.

I have a hoard of stencils so just started playing around

with several of them - not really taking much notice of

which stencils/colours I used as I wasn't sure at the time whether 

it would turn out or just be an overcrowded mess!

Most are ARTplorations and one gifted

to me by a friend (she had a spare)

The main image is ARTplorations Bloom Silhouettes.

My sentiment is from Gina K. 

Attached to brown card stock to finish.

Now that is done I am of to play some more.

Thanks for dropping in. I will be back later

with a scheduled post. 

I Scream You Scream...

It's the middle of the month and that means

A Reminder for the October CUTplorations Challenge

at STAMPlorations

I decided to go with Happy and chose

 STAMPlorations Sweet Cravings

and CUTplorations Matching Die for my focal point.

You know the old saying - 

I scream - you scream - we all scream for ice cream

A perfect Birthday Card. 

There are lots of yummies here - 

I decided to add a bit of interest with so many

party stamps and cut my card stock on an angle.

My ice cream cone was heat embossed with

Zing Brown Sugar then of course I had to add

toppings - Nuvo Drops in 

Violet Galaxy/Wisteria Purple/Pumpkin & Blue Lagoon

and you have to have sprinkles!

I let that dry and continued on adding

some stenciling from ARTplorations Square Dance

stamping from STAMPlorations Balloons & Banners

STAMPlorations Groovy Shoes

STAMPlorations Bold Sentiments

STAMPlorations Party Time

with CTMH Thistle, Memento Lulu Lavender

TH Carved Pumpkin 

and die cut CUTplorations Happy Die

So you see - so many fabulous party stamps/stencils/dies.

Hope you enjoyed licking your lips and drooling over

that yummy ice cream. It's certainly ice cream weather here in Oz.

Thanks for dropping in and hope you will go check out what

my Team Mates created Here and come join us.

You still have plenty of  time.

Till next time Cherrio from

What's 'Trending' at Just Us Girls???

Welcome to today's post for Just Us Girls.
It is Trend Week and Angie as Host has chosen

So many choices here.

I had intended to do a peek-a-boo card but...

I got this new die that I thought I would try out.

I had an idea in my head that I thought I would

try once again. It was all the tissue paper cards

floating around in Blogland and it hit me!

Why not get out one of those 

drawer full of paper patterned napkins 

and go with that. 

I glued my lavender napkin to card stock and

scrunched it a little. I did this quickly so I 

wouldn't tear it. I then added my window.

The background was again pasted with 

a plain scrunched up napkin finished

with a Happy Birthday cut die from Marianne Designs.

I really like the scrunched background finishing 

my card off nicely.

Now pop over to Our Blog

to see what our October Guest Karola

and the Team created. 

Hope you will join in this weeks Challenge.

In doing so you could be chosen as our

Chic of the Week and in the running for

 a Guest Designer Spot.

Thanks for dropping in.

It's Mono Time at Cardz 4 Galz

Hello there! Glad you popped in to see what I have been up to.

This fortnight over at Cardz 4 Galz choosing the
 Theme of Monochromatic is Chris.

I simply love this watercolour poppy stamp from Rubbernecker.
 using both stamps.
I inked the main image and the outline on watercolour paper
with the Altenew Red Cosmos set.
I like the effect you get when you off centre the 2 stamps.
Added a few splatters from a TH stencil
and cut with a stitched die.
This was matted unevenly and attached to
white card stock.
My sentiment is from STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2
Added some Nuvo Drops to the centres of the flowers.

Pop over to Cardz 4 Galz
 to see more inspiration from the Team.

Leaves are 'Fall-ing'

I mentioned in an earlier posting that I had made 2 leaves using

the Autumn Gilding Flakes. 

This is the result of using the second one.

It turned out NOT quite so CAS as I had planned.

Never the less I decided to send it over to the

Challenge - Here

I added some Distress inks to my craft mat

smooching my paper around till it covered my card stock.

Added some gold colour burst with a paint brush

then inked a leaf from Gina K Designs.in the centre.

 The corners were inked with the same set in colours to match.

This was popped after cutting the frame out from

MFT Peek a Boo Die.

Sentiment is also from GKD.

#Updating to add this to the Fall Fest Challenge at the
Mod Squad

Thanks for dropping in so till next time

Cherrio from 

Simply 'Merry Christmas'

I have more Exciting News!

Kylie from Happy Little Stampers has asked me to join

her Addicted to Stamps & More Team  and

I couldn't say no - She's an Aussie!

So here I am on Team B and it's our turn to post.

I'm making sure I don't get caught out short with my 

Holiday Cards. How about you?

So far I think I am doing nicely. It also helps when a

Challenge has Holiday as the Theme which 

Addicted to Stamps and More has for their latest Challenge.

I have kept my card cas - great for posting.

I thought this time I would go with Traditional Colours

having fun with my addiction - Brusho's

from Happy Little Stampers in

Rose Red/Brilliant Red/Leaf Green/Yellow

Added Inka Gold with a paint brush randomly

and a few splatters. Sentiment is from 

CUTplorations Merry Christmas Word Art Die

Cut in white and gold -  haven't quite got the hang

of getting a good shadow effect though.

Framed with gold paper onto white card stock.

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Pop over to Our Blog and check out what

Holiday Cards the Team have created.

I'm sure you will want to play along.

Thanks for dropping in